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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: nothing." Paul emphatically declares that for the Galatians to be
circumcised would mean for them to lose the benefits of Christ's suffering
and death. This passage may well serve as a criterion for all the religions.
To teach that besides faith in Christ other devices like works, or the
observance of rules, traditions, or ceremonies are necessary for the
attainment of righteousness and everlasting life, is to make Christ and His
salvation of no benefit to anybody.
This passage is an indictment of the whole papacy. All priests, monks, and
nuns--and I am now speaking of the best of them--who repose their
hope for salvation in their own works, and not in Christ, whom they
imagine to he an angry judge, hear this sentence pronounced against them
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